Here, perhaps, is a better rhyme related to Lizzie Borden:
To Lizzie, by A. L. Bixby
[moderato cantabile--Douglas MacNeill]
There's no evidence of guilt,
Lizzie Borden,
That should make your spirit wilt,
Lizzie Borden,
Many do not think that you
chopped your father's head in two;
It's so hard a thing to do,
Lizzie Borden.
You have borne up under all,
Lizzie Borden,
With a mighty show of gall,
Lizzie Borden,
But because your nerve is stout
Does not prove beyond a doubt
That you knocked the old folks out,
Lizzie Borden.
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